https://www.hastingsindependentpress.co.uk/articles/culture/arts/black-history-month-2/ The Hastings & St Leonards non-profit community newspaper Thu, 10 Nov 2022 17:49:40 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 https://www.hastingsindependentpress.co.uk/articles/culture/arts/black-history-month-2/#comment-36572 Thu, 10 Nov 2022 17:49:40 +0000 https://www.hastingsindependentpress.co.uk/?p=21428#comment-36572 Black British citizens living in the Commonwealth were coming to Britan long before they were ‘invited’! Soldiers were demobbed after World War II and put on ships to go ‘home’ but realised they could pay their fares to return to the uk. That’s why when the Windrush tried to land it was held overnight by Ministers who thought they could divert it to Africa for people to pick nuts!
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/apr/22/windrush-story-not-a-rosy-one-even-before-ship-arrived

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